41 Wash. App. 183 - Beeson v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2018
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State ex rel. Carlson v. Superior Court · 97 Wash. 2d 360 - Brown v. McAnally · 30 Wash. App. 867 - In Re the Relationship of Eggers · State Ex Rel. Huntoon v. Superior Court · State Ex Rel. Erchinger v. Gilliam
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An owner ... of land which is so situate with respect to the land of another that it is necessary for its proper use and enjoyment to have and maintain a private way of necessity . . . may condemn and take lands of such other sufficient in area for the construction and maintenance of such private way of necessity . . ..”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Ajccess to one portion of a condemnor's property does not necessarily preclude his obtaining a vehicular access to other parts of his property not reasonably available without encroaching upon his neighbor's property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Effective use ... means the ability to ... reach it in a reasonable manner.... ... The cost of building a road up the side of the bluff would be prohibitive—even if construction were feasible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.